Underpaid: Theoretically, it’s nice that Jake Shields gets the majority of his salary guaranteed, but since he never loses he’s basically being screwed out of twenty grand every time he fights. Hopefully Scott Smith is getting a locker-room bump for starring in two title fights on CBS within seven weeks, and hopefully Cris Cyborg — who’s now the most buzzed-about female fighter in MMA — can renegotiate her contract to something respectable after her demolition of Shayna Baszler.

Overpaid: Antonio Silva is certainly worthy of a large payday, but it’s strange that he took in so much more than everyone else, considering he’s still not a popular draw and was stuck on a barely-watched Showtime undercard. Props to his manager, I guess.

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Everyone bags on how "little" the UFC pays its fighters but I've never seen anyone get paid less than 3 grand on any recent UFC card. I just expected Elite XC to get the same amount of criticism over fighter pay that UFC gets a la "everyone whose base salary was under $8,000 can be considered 'pathetically underpaid'" from the "Full Salary Payouts for Silva v. Irvin" article...